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Summary

The first beast

  • ten horns
  • seven heads with blasphemous names
  • like a leopard with bear's feet
  • lion's mouth
  • one of it's heads had what looked like a mortal wound that was healed
  • the dragon gave the beast his authority
  • people worshipped the dragon and marveled at the beast and worshipped it too
  • the beast uttered blashpemy
  • for 42 months it was given authority and waged war on God's people and conquered them

The second beast

  • Rose out of the earth
  • Two horns like a lamb
  • Makes people worship the 1st beast
  • performs signs, makes fire come down from heaven
  • makes an image of the 1st beast
  • makes image come alive, the image wages war on people who will not worship the beast
  • causes everyone to be marked on the right hand or forehead and you cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast
  • the mark is 666, the number of a man

Observations

Much of the descriptions of the beasts sound like twisted imitations of Christ: + mortal wound that was healed - death and resurrection + given authority over the earth + has a messenger who goes before it (the second beast) + believers are not spared a hard time